Harris Links IRS Scandal & Health Care Reform

Maryland First District Republican Congressman Andy Harris says that one of the problems with the federal helath care reform law is that the Internal Revenue Service is helping to enforce it.

Harris delivered his party's weekly radio and Internet address, and tried to link the agency's ability to enforce health care with recent evenelations that the IRS improperly investigated the tax-exemppt status of Tea Party and other conservative political orgnaziations.

Questions about the agency's conduct led President Obama to ask for and accept the resignation of Acting IRS Commissioner Steven Miller.

"Just think about the fact that it will be the IRS that's responsible for enforcing many of these regulations. If we've learned anything this week, it's that the IRS needs less power, not more," Harris said in the Republican address.

"It turns out the that the IRS official that oversaw the operation that's udner scrutiny for targeting conservatives is now in charge of the Obamacare office. You can't make this stuff up."

Harris was referring to Sarah Hall Ingram, who heads the Affordable Care Act's enforcement office at the IRS. She previously supervised the division that reviews the status of tax exempt groups.

That division is now under scrutiny for its work.

Harris also said that he beleives the health care reform law should be repealed.